Cheema's
long piece in The News, which
takes a close look at the report, is not as dismissive
as others have been. He singles out a paragraph of the report noting that
the Commission does not exonerate government agencies from having a part in Shahzad's
killing:

From the overwhelming material available on the record, the
Commission is convinced that there are sufficient reasons to believe that the
agencies, including ISI, have been using coercive and intimidating tactics in
dealing with those journalists who antagonize the Agency's interest.

But, Cheema says, it is still not clear who the perpetrators
were, and the judicial panel raised some serious questions. He said his editors
told him his analysis was getting too long, so on January 14 he posted some of
the points he couldn't get into the paper on his Twitter account @UmarCheema1 --- scroll down his Twitter feed, you'll get to
them.

As I've been saying in interviews
since the report was made public, such judicial commissions seldom reach a
conclusive finding, and what is needed is good solid police work: A criminal
investigation, a hearing that leads to a trial, and a conviction of the people
who carried out the crime. That seldom happens in Pakistan, in the case of the
murders of journalists or any other Pakistani, and it is the lack of such a
process that leads to Pakistan's
vast climate of impunity

Bob Dietz, coordinator of CPJ’s Asia Program, has reported across the continent for news outlets such as CNN and Asiaweek. He has led numerous CPJ missions, including ones to Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka. Follow him on Twitter @cpjasia and Facebook @ CPJ Asia Desk.

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